All Screen articles in 25 February 2002
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Vortex acquires Emmett's Mark with Roth, Byrne
Vortex Pictures, the newinternational sales outfit run by Nicolas Chartier and Dean Shapiro, has pickedup international rights to Emmett's Mark, a psychological thriller starring Scott Wolf, TimRoth and Gabriel Byrne. WMA Independent is representing North American rightson behalf of the film-makers, writer/director Keith Snyder and producers BradFuller and Graham Taylor.The ...
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Deakins wins ASC award for Man Who Wasn't There
Roger Deakins won theAmerican Society Of Cinematographers (ASC) Outstanding Achievement Award in thefeature film category for his work on The Man Who Wasn't There, the sixth film by the Coen brothers which Deakinshas shot. It was also his sixth ASC nomination and his second award after TheShawshank Redemption in 1994.He ...
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Mimi Steinbauer is new sales head at Franchise
Following the departureof Lisa Wilson to join Splendid Pictures, Franchise Pictures has hireddistribution veteran Mimi Steinbauer as its new president of internationaldistribution. She will be responsible for selling territorial rights for all ofFranchise's films as well as films produced by the company'sarthouse label Franchise Classics.She will alsooversee the company's delivery ...
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Harry Potter is the number two movie of all time
Harry Potter & TheSorcerer's Stone officiallybypassed Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace over the weekend to become the number two movie ofall time after Titanic. TheWarner Bros movie, known in many territories as Harry Potter & ThePhilosopher's Stone, has nowgrossed a worldwide total of $926.1, eclipsing the $922.8m ...
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Bullish MDP Worldwide posts records results
MDP WorldwideEntertainment, Mark Damon's production and sales outfit which is listedon the Toronto Stock Exchange, has reported its highest ever financial resultsfor the year ending Sept 30,2001. MDP reports a net profit of $3.6m onoperating revenues of $53.6m, a rise of 427% from the previous fiscal year.Earnings pershare were up ...
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Secretary
Dir: Steven Shainberg. US. 2002. 112min.Audacious, offbeat and darkly humorous, Steven Shainberg's Secretary, based on Mary Gaitskill's critically acclaimed novella Bad Behaviour, tells an utterly bizarre love story between an enigmatic attorney and his highly insecure secretary. Maggie Gyllenhaal renders an exquisite performance as the troubled young woman ...
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Baader
Dir: Christopher Roth. Germany. 2002. 129mins.As all Sixties survivors know, that decade had nothing to do with political protest. This portrait of Andreas Baader, the founder, with Ulrike Meinhof, of the notorious Baader-Meinhof group, reveals what it was really about: spouting vague revolutionary slogans, listening to some rather good music ...
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Monsters, Inc. fights off Ali and Ocean's 11
The UK chart saw two strong openings over the weekend but neither could challenge computer-animated holdover Monsters, Inc. for the top spot.Michael Mann's Ali, distributed by Entertainment, launched on a limited release of 17 sites to land twelfth position with $179,904 (£125,573). No doubt boosted by its two acting Academy ...
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Japan's Toei to focus on DVD business
Toei, Japan's leading video rental distributor, is to follow the example set by Blockbuster last year (Screendaily Sept 12, 2001) and shift its focus to DVDs.The company plans to release 30 classic film titles on DVD and place them, along with its existing DVD library in 4,000 rental outlets by ...
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Singapore box office exclaims I Not Stupid
The Singapore comedy I Not Stupid outclassed its box office rivals during Chinese New Year to become not just the top grossing film over the competitive holiday period, but in record time, also the fourth highest grossing local film ever.Released wide by UIP on 30 prints, the comedy pulled in ...
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Cash crunch hits Portugal's producers
The Portuguese film industry is beginning to feel the effects of the growing financial difficulties within the nation's broadcasters. The global slump in advertising has hit this corner of Europe particularly hard, with one Portuguese television executive estimating a 40% drop in the market in recent months.Pedro Berhan da Costa, ...
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Germany's Helkon must release titles through BVI
The German office of Buena Vista International (BVI) has obtained a temporary injunction from a Munich regional court preventing Helkon Media from distributing The Musketeer or Rollerball either directly in-house or through third party distributors. In January, Helkon had announced that it was terminating its agreement with BVI for handling ...
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Veteran Colom quits Spain's Via Digital
Spanish industry veteran Ramon Colom has resigned from his position as head of contents and programming at Spanish digital satellite platform Via Digital. His resignation, the latest in a series of high-level personnel shuffles at the various holdings of Admira, Telefonica's media subsidiary, is unlikely to come as a surprise. ...
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Gruber Films gathers Momentum, Film Council deals
Gruber Films, the UK production outfit of Shooting Fish and Waking Ned producer Richard Holmes, has struck development deals with support body the Film Council and UK distribution-production operation Momentum Pictures.Holmes, who stepped down as managing director of media concern Civilian Content at the end of last year, has also ...
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Miramax teams with FilmFour, Wolves on Actors
The UK's FilmFour and Stephen Woolley and Neil Jordan's production outfit Company Of Wolves have teamed with Miramax Films on Conor McPherson's The Actors, a comedy starring Michael Caine, Dylan Moran, Michael Gambon, Lena Headey, Miranda Richardson and Ricky Gervais.FilmFour International will handle international sales, while Miramax has taken North ...
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Canada's first VOD service launched by Rogers
Rogers Communications will launch Canada's first video-on-demand service. The company's cable subsidiary, Canada's largest operator, has signed a long-term pact with Alliance Atlantis Communications (AAC) to distribute its films over the new service in the VOD window, which follows the home video window by approximately 45-60 days. The initial phase ...
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Myriad romps with Neil Jordan's Borgia
Myriad Pictureswill finance Borgia,the next film from Neil Jordan, which is being produced by Jordan's producingpartner Stephen Woolley and Robert Zemeckis, Jack Rapke and Steve Starkey ofImage Movers. Jordan - who isalso involved as a producer ConorMcPherson's The Actors (seeseparate story) - wrote the script which follows thenotorious Borgia family ...
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Summit forges ties with Anschutz-backed Walden
SummitEntertainment has secured a new product line through an agreement reached withCary Granat's Walden Media, one of two film production companies backed byPhillip Anschutz, the Denver-based billionaire who now also controls a sixth ofAmerica's movie theatres.Summit willoffer Walden's first two films: the large-screen 3-D documentaryGhosts Of The Abyssfrom director James ...
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Polone partners up with Senator Int'l, Screen Gems
Gavin Polone,whose latest picture Panic Room opens in March, is the latest producer to source financing fromthe international marketplace, teaming up with Senator International todevelop, acquire, produce and distribute a slate of pictures. But unlike many such deals, Polone's company Pariah and Senator have guaranteed domesticdistribution through a second alliance ...
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UK sales upstart Moviehouse comes out smokin'
New UK sales company, Moviehouse Entertainment has unveiled a $10m supernatural thriller, The Smoking Man, and satirical comedy The Rage In Placid Lake as the first pictures of its 2002 slate.The company is run by former J&M Entertainment head of sales Gary Phillips and Mark Vennis, formerly a director of ...